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Business secretary Peter Kyle says appeal of far-right parties like Reform due to ‘their dogma of disruption, division and despair’Nigel Farage is “today’s incarnation of the politics of Enoch Powell”, the business secretary, Peter Kyle, said at the Co…
Business secretary Peter Kyle says appeal of far-right parties like Reform due to ‘their dogma of disruption, division and despair’Nigel Farage is “today’s incarnation of the politics of Enoch Powell”, the business secretary, Peter Kyle, said at the Co…
Chancellor expected to freeze level at which people start paying income tax for two years rather than putting rates upRachel Reeves will raise £7.5bn from millions of workers by freezing tax thresholds at the budget, after her decision to scrap controv…
Exclusive: Supporters say grants largely going to middle-class households, but experts warn move will slow transition from gas boilersHundreds of thousands of homeowners will lose their right to subsidies for eco-friendly heat pumps as a result of gove…
Stronger finances require a stronger economy, but budget tax rises and spending cuts could squeeze activity further• Business live – latest updates• Economy grew by just 0.1% in third quarter amid hit from JLR cyber-attackRachel Reeves’s autumn budget …
Reading undershoots forecasts, with crippling Jaguar Land Rover hack helping pull September GDP down by 0.1%The UK economy expanded by just 0.1% in the quarter from July to September as the crippling cyber-attack on Jaguar Land Rover hit manufacturing….
Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of povertyRachel Reeves is planning to remove the two-child benefit cap in full in the November budget, in a move that could …
Almost one in five school-leavers in West Midlands town are not in education, employment or training and chancellor is under pressure to deliver promised ‘youth guarantee’It is a rainy day in Dudley and Alex Jones and his friends are taking shelter und…
New deputy leader also calls on government to lift two-child benefit cap urgently and in fullLabour should stand by its manifesto commitment not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT, its deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has said in a direct challe…
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereReeves says welfare needs to be reformed.There is nothing progressive about refusing to reform a system that is leaving one in eight young people out of education, or employment. I put our pu…